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Matthew Budd
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linkedin.com/in/matthew-budd
mbudd@robots.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0) 7825 795410
London // Oxford
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including the well-known WYSIWYG web design tool, KiCAD [www.kicad-pcb.org].
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They all said I was crazy! A whole website in an
SVG image? They all said it couldn't be done!
Well, look who's laughing now!
Publications
I am a PhD student in the Oxford Robotics Institute.
As a member of the
Goal-Oriented Long-Lived
Systems (GOALS)
lab, I am particularly interested
in the
real-world
deployment
of robotic systems
that act under uncertainty with real-world resource
constraints. Areas of interest within robotics
include:
• Model-based sequential decision making
• Meta-reasoning for compute constraints and time-varying environments
• Bayesian / probabilistic reinforcement learning
• Markov decision process safe exploration
• Formal methods
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I started on a PhD at the Oxford Robotics Institute in
2020. Since then I've worked with robots that have
arms, legs, wheels, and propellors.
I was previously the manipulation team leader of
Team
ORIon
, competing in RoboCup in 2019 (
Sydney
) and
2022 (
Thailand
, where I was also acting team leader).
Between 2016 and 2020 I undertook an MEng in
Oxford's Engineering Department, specialising in
information engineering, microelectronics, control
theory, and mathematical methods.
I received an
IET Diamond Jubilee engineering
scholarship
for the duration of my undergraduate
degree. In this time I also worked in an embedded
software engineering role at Cambridge Consultants,
as part of their
Technology Scholar programme
.
I enjoy technical leadership and running my own
electronic engineering mini-projects. These include
leading a team of ~15 undergraduates to design, build
and program a "
Mars rover
" robot, and launching a
high-altitude balloon scientific payload
to 20km+
altitude.
Outside of work, I enjoy swimming and indoor
bouldering.
2020
1.
Budd, M., Lacerda, B., Duckworth, P., West, A., Lennox, B.,
& Hawes, N. (2020, October). Markov Decision Processes
with Unknown State Feature Values for Safe Exploration
using Gaussian Processes.
IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS)
.
2022
1.
Budd, M., Duckworth, P., Hawes, N., & Lacerda, B. (2022,
December). Bayesian reinforcement learning for single-
episode missions in partially unknown environments.
6th
Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
2021
1.
Budd, M., Duckworth, P., Hawes, N., & Lacerda, B. (2021,
August). Mission Planning in Unknown Environments as
Bayesian Reinforcement Learning.
IJCAI’21 Workshop
on
Robust and Reliable Autonomy in the Wild
(R2AW)
.
2.
Budd, M., Salavasidis, G., Kamarudzaman, I., Harris, C. A.,
Phillips, A. B., Hawes, N., Duckworth, P., & Lacerda, B.
(2022, October). Probabilistic Planning for AUV Data
Harvesting from Smart Underwater Sensor Networks.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent
Robots
and Systems (IROS).
RoboCup Bangkok 2022
Oxford Robotics Institute coverage
RoboCup Sydney, 2019
Oxford Robotics Institute news item
Pembroke College news item
MEng Master's Project, 2020
Thesis
Mars Rover Competition, 2018-19
Engineering department news item
Critical Design Review document
Competition site
CERN Large Hadron Collider
instrumentation group design
project, 2018-19
Final presentation
(presented to Beam Instrumentation
Group at CERN in Geneva)
Final technical report
RoboSerf project at Cambridge
Consultants, 2015
News item